Lily is the brains behind this invention. Last summer, she wanted a way to transport her silly bands on our vacation without them getting all tangled up in her suitcase. I looked around the house and handed her an empty toilet paper roll. It worked perfectly! However, that plain brown roll of cardboard just wasn’t fancy enough for my taste. So when the girls had a day off from school last Monday, we fan-ci-fied a couple of silly band holders.
Emmy’s been keeping her silly bands on a paper plate on the top of her dresser. While silly bands don’t seem to be the rage any more, kids still like them. The girls have received silly bands in goody bags for Halloween (see the bat?) and birthdays.
We gathered together our supplies: toilet paper rolls, scissors, a ruler, scrapbook paper, a pencil, paintbrush, and Mod Podge. I had Lily measure the length of the toilet paper roll, and then we added a couple of inches to our measurement. This craft was a great introduction to using a ruler! I also showed Lily how to measure the paper, draw a couple of dots, and then place the ruler by the dots to draw a straight line.
Lily is painting Mod Podge onto her piece of scrapbook paper. We wrapped the paper around the toilet paper roll. I made some slits on the excess paper at each end, and folded the tabs in, which helped the edges have more of a finished look.
I held the newly papered roll while the girls painted Mod Podge on the outside of the roll to protect the paper and give it a smooth finish. While I originally wanted to use a sponge brush, the bristles on Lily’s paintbrush gave us a nice texture. We could have made these holders even fancier by gluing a ribbon on the seam of the scrapbook paper, but as this was more of a spur-of-the-moment craft, we bypassed the ribbon. Here is Emmy’s completed holder, doing its job of reining in those silly bands!
So creative and colorful!
Love the silly bands holder. Although I am not quite sure what a silly band is.
Very cool idea! My daughter has a pile of these in her closet, I think I'll have her make one of these for them.
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Very clever idea–the girls did a nice job!
Holy cow, this is a great idea! We have silly bands EVERYWHERE….my E is reading this over my shoulder right now and wants to make one "right now":) Thanks for the idea!
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How precious and how cute…you live in a girl's world…how fun! Now Lord, may I live in a grandmother's girls world.
What a great idea. I just love those silly bands.
Wow! That is so crafty! I do stuff like that with my son all the time, well, not all flowery, my husband would kiiiilll me. It looks like they are having so much fun. And how creative and smart of Lily.
I'll have to pass this one on to my nieces and nephews!
Love this! You must know what it's like in my house. Silly bands everywhere. My boys would love something like this, with you know, cars, or trucks on it. They would also love a mom as crafty as you, but they can't have everything. You're girls are so gorgeous!
Very clever, we could so use a bunch of those…sometimes I think those things are taking over the house!
That is a *fantastic* idea! Totally tweeting about it now… 🙂
First of all, this is crazy adorable. Second: I had no idea they weren't the rage anymore, could've fooled us! Gabriel is still silly fo silly bands. He has a collection of empty jars on his bedside table with all of his collections in them. One jar is for silly bands.